Software Maintenance

Support Package stacks provide regular updates. SAP Notes provide urgent corrections and solutions for smaller problems.

Note

We recommend always keeping your system up to date.

Tasks

Perform the following tasks whenever necessary:

Task	Description	Tool
Import Support Package stacks	You can make the updates using the described standard processes for Application Server ABAP and Application Server Java. For more information see the Software Logistics documentation for Solution Life Cycle Management. You can find the available Support Packages on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/sp-stacks. You can find special patching information on content and specific binding dependencies between Support Packages for SAP BW and SAP BEx components for the specific Support Package in the SAPBWNEWS composite SAP Notes. More information: SAP Community Network, at http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing → Space "SAP SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse" → Related Resource "BW Support Packages" SAP Service Marketplace, at http://service.sap.com/instguides → SAP NetWeaver → SAP NetWeaver <Release> → Maintenance	Support Package Manager (ABAP) Java Support Package Manager
Implement individual corrections	To solve smaller problems, individual corrections are included in SAP Notes. SAP Notes can be found in SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/notes.	SAP Note Assistant (transaction code SNOTE) for ABAP components of SAP BW.

Task

Description

Tool

Import Support Package stacks

You can make the updates using the described standard processes for Application Server ABAP and Application Server Java. For more information see the Software Logistics documentation for Solution Life Cycle Management.

You can find the available Support Packages on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/sp-stacks.

You can find special patching information on content and specific binding dependencies between Support Packages for SAP BW and SAP BEx components for the specific Support Package in the SAPBWNEWS composite SAP Notes.

More information:

SAP Community Network, at http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing → Space "SAP SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse" → Related Resource "BW Support Packages"
SAP Service Marketplace, at http://service.sap.com/instguides → SAP NetWeaver → SAP NetWeaver <Release> → Maintenance

Support Package Manager (ABAP)

Java Support Package Manager

Implement individual corrections

To solve smaller problems, individual corrections are included in SAP Notes.

SAP Notes can be found in SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/notes.

SAP Note Assistant (transaction code SNOTE) for ABAP components of SAP BW.

Additional Information

Hot News informs you about potentially critical situations. Hot News appears as a system message in the SAP Support Portal.